HPLIP

nplip installed programs need man pages

Asked by Gary Aitken

hplip ships with auxiliary documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/hplip (location may be different depending on os).

It also installs numerous programs as hp-xxx in /usr/local/bin.

None of the installed hp-xxx programs has a man page.

They should at least have a minimal man page referencing the installed documentation and telling you to run "hp-xxx -h". Otherwise the user has to grep around to see what and where the documentation is, particularly when you don't know which package installed it. Better would be to have an actual man page. Perhaps the output of "hp-xxx -h" could be used to generate a minimal man page.

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Shivani Mandora (shivani1709) said : 		#1

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestion. As you mentioned the help is available for all the hp installed programs by running the command hp-xxx -h. We will review your request of having a man page for all the hplip installed programs and keep you posted.

Thanks,
Shivani Mandora.

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